Hmmm... I seem to recall having visited a few websites which immediately posted in HTML/on-screen my IP and mac address as a routine anti-maliciousness measure.
I could be wrong, but I can almost swear I saw my MAC...
Nevertheless, should it not be a violation to pull a MAC from someone without interactive approval to do so? Nevermind the subnets. Just imagine if every time you go to Starbucks or Borders or to a hot-spot and your MAC is recorded along with bits and pieces of your traffic. Talk about fingerprinting people. WHO knows where the so-called fingerprints get databased....
Walgreens... They have some model made in China, probably better than the $1 or -Y-100 model. It costs only $9.99, normally $30-some. I wonder where the Remington Steel rotary is made... Imagine if it only costs $5 to make, but they charge $120+
But, serously, umm, seriously, I'm tempted to try it... I suppose if it's BAD enough, Walgreens might pull it. Oh, wait... it's a STORE... that's probably their "loss leader", maybe even an in-house variety....like GQ is to Fry's and Best Buy (yep, I've seen some GQ laptops at Best Buy, in SJ over by santana blow... back in late 2003/early 2004)
But, for $122, I where ELSE it is useful for... (doesn't look like it'll draw blood)
But, if anyone figures out this works for their pets, I imagine the gillette marketing team will cringe... struggling to shake off the image of their pricey gizmo being used by vets and frugal pet owners.... new, unwanted ad/slogan: "GilLETTe... the BEST a PET can GEHEHET..."
For some reason I originally thought this was bout flat razors. But... seems if they want more blades or better head, they could make a micro-rotary system embedded in face masks. The masks could be custom latex molds. You go to sleep with it and then just rip it off.
Oh, wait, I guess they could just use Neet or Nair-- but made for men...
Oh, and I don't care... if there is NO patent as of this date, and later I come up with the money, I'll patent this just to open source it. Or, I'll make designs and release them if someone tries to preemptively patent it....
The way to deal with this rampant electrion fraud is to give people paddleboards with two colors: black & white (so at least the colorblind can participate).
Then, order a national voting day with pay. Everyone who will vote goes to a large open pieceof land and for each candidate, ballot, whatever, they flip up their colors. The ballots and measures and such have to be stated in PLAIN language, not asshole politician or lawyerspeak.
Then, foreign country planes or satellites acting as impartial observers shot pics of the paddles and the vote for each candidate or ballot measure or whatnot goes to color that is prearranged as the yay or nay color. Not electronics. No FUCKING around with the tallies.
Final remedy: SHOOT, hang or emascualte ANYone who tampers with the voting process or tries to disenfranchise voters. Time to reform the jerks screwing with the system.
Gimp your eyes.. one up and one down. Round out your mouth like Nancy Crater (the Salt Monster from Star Trek's "Man Trap" episode). Be sure to put a stringy mop on your yead. Add a couple of black dots or raisins to your face to see if actors with moles come up.
Or, adjust your hair with hair glue. See if Sid Vicious or Suicidal Tendencies or the like appear...
"But, this does scare me - I invisage a future wear the government knows where you are at any time, if not by picking up your face on the streets, to embedding some sort of chip."
Well then, if you MUST carry a cell phone (or any other "chip-embedded" device) not only should you remove the battery from the cell, but remember that it has a battery for your contact list and settings retention.
Ever seen your phone say, "Updating Contact List, Please Wait"?
Well, I don't fear their knowing my CONTACT LIST. After all, I do send and receive calls/messages. What bugs the shit out of me is that if I can't lose my phone, they wont' restore my list from the call records. Worse, when it says, "Updating Contact List", I think they're combing my list for notations that I DON'T call. I mean, names and numbers I enter for memory jogs or restaurants or other places. Now, I don't know if that's something YOU would worry about.
Or stuff your face a la The Godfather... "What have I done to deesurf dees?" But, in case the camera has gait analysis algorithms, then you have to sway and swagger like that black slimy zombie in "Return of the Living Dead".
Actually, you might want to watch Jet Li's/Simon Yam's "The Hit Man". It was made before 1998, and it showed (probably studio exaggerated, tho) gate analysis with facial matching software to track down an assassin. Looked pretty kewl for the time. (Beware: there are two versions: the HK and the English, which has several minutes of scenes deleted. I watched both. I think the some of the cuts might have been the biometric/gate-analysis stuff, and one scene where Jet Li was in a shop being dressed up to take his hit man role: Eric Tsang had him sorta gay-dressed... Maybe the studios in the west didn't like that?)
I mean, anal probing by by finger or by laptop? Having a laptop crammed up my ass would be quite a shocker, especially if the battery blows up. Give a new meaning to any Lithium-Hide-dried batteries...
Butt, I don't want Dell Hell in my ass, nor Gateway having a gateway into there. Nor the Sony Boys and their assploding battries...
How long before Blackberries and other PDAs befall this same bs?
This ought to or might ramp up sales of Dell Latitudes. (I dunno about Inspirons and Precisions...). With the Latitude, it's easy to leave out two screws and slide out and swap the hard drives out (compared to many other l/ts that require removing the keyboards or opening up the chassis...). Just buy an extra caddy from Dell, configure a PERMANENTLY-dedicated disk for the border nazis and then when you're done with your main disk, slip in the just-for-the-border-nazis disk and when they need a boot up, boot it up. If you're brazen, have the boot up image say something nasty.... (Be SURE to isolate the other disk. If these rent-a-dummies DO confiscate it, hopefully they don't thing to rummage your pockets.) This just underscores that in computer THEFT (by burglar with a mission or agent with a warrant), it's NOT the hardware so much as the DATA and the DISK you care about.
But, that just opens up the REAL question: If this is a government action (vice a border agent action) is it the LAPTOP or the HARD DRIVE the government wants? If they're taking specific hardware, it's probably because they're PROFILING their marks, maybe looking for suspicious devices that they thing held or will hold a bomb. Maybe in reality, only devices with offending MAC addresses are targeted in some cases. Still, in this case you better back up your main disk and expect to lose it with the JFTBN disk. They'll just go into your purse or pocket and demand you surrender it, too. So, I suspect they are after data, not laptops. Or, the guards want the laptops and the agencies want the hard drives...
Now that this scenario is posited, they may as well just electronically confiscate a COPY of the disk using:
and STOP STEALING PEOPLE'S HARDWARE and risking the WRATH of the populace.
I mean, in this day and age, short of a concern of EVERY hard disk and machine being digitally booby-trapped, there is no sane reason for taking people's hardware when for $1,500 on a Logicube, amortized across the 3,000 or 4,000 machines they might have warrants to sieze and search, they minimize the risk of SHEER outrage on the part of visitors, citizens and others. But of course they won't do this shit to diplomats, because they've got immunity. I've said before, and I'll say again: You can, with a warrant, CLONE my disk and copy my papers (If you bring a hand/wand scanner), but if you TAKE my shit, you better lock my ass up FOREVER and throw away the key cuz as long as I am mobile and able... err, umm, better not say that again.... sheesh...
How can I get diplomatic immunity from another country so as to not be searched and screwed with? How can we ALL do it? Oh, we can't.
I suspect next that in-flight nationality & customs declaration forms will have a section for passengers to, "under penalty of perjury, a $100,000 fine and imprisonment up to 15 years affirm/swear/attest that they did not encrypt, digitally booby-trap, or erase their disks nor switch them out with nor secretly give them to other passengers in an attempt to avoid a hard-drive road-block...."
Well, if this becomes a REAL problem and keeps up, I imagine concerned companies will forbid employees' taking company laptops overseas, will force them to rent or go with disposable laptops, and installing self-destructing hard drives which are used ONLY for VPN authentication/access/work and then disposal before leaving a foreign country. Individuals might follow suit.
More crap for the people to get worked up over (if it gets out of hand)...
Name a form of communication that has NOT been used for commerce.
Telepathy? Tuvan Throat Singing? Fire Dancing? Cirle Jerking? Channeling/Seances/Summoning of Spirits? Blinking Morse Code by Eye? Gertrude? Tokyo Rose?
Roger that. Their problems could be felt as being orders of magnitude worse, considering they probably woefully underreported the number of lost boats, the numbers of ruptured coolant pipes, and their number of dead. Probably one reason they kept producing multitudes of classes of boats trying to rectify or escape plagued plant designs.
Ever heard of Thresher and Scorpion. Sure, the reactors are either intact or leaking negligible rads, but there have been others. Such as problems with sodium-coolant reactors. Granted, I can't recall any deaths or hair-loss events over these, but... In general I see what you're trying to say...
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rate above 2: A 5, a 3 and a two...
funny, tho, slash image word: inundate
Hmmm... I seem to recall having visited a few websites which immediately posted in HTML/on-screen my IP and mac address as a routine anti-maliciousness measure.
I could be wrong, but I can almost swear I saw my MAC...
Nevertheless, should it not be a violation to pull a MAC from someone without interactive approval to do so? Nevermind the subnets. Just imagine if every time you go to Starbucks or Borders or to a hot-spot and your MAC is recorded along with bits and pieces of your traffic. Talk about fingerprinting people. WHO knows where the so-called fingerprints get databased....
DS
http://www.google-watch.org/newsday.html
Now, THAT's damn interesting... and the article was written back in March 2003...
http://www.google.com/search?q=miserable+failure&i e=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
and, apparently he's STILL a failure, hehehe
Walgreens... They have some model made in China, probably better than the $1 or -Y-100 model. It costs only $9.99, normally $30-some. I wonder where the Remington Steel rotary is made... Imagine if it only costs $5 to make, but they charge $120+
But, serously, umm, seriously, I'm tempted to try it... I suppose if it's BAD enough, Walgreens might pull it. Oh, wait... it's a STORE... that's probably their "loss leader", maybe even an in-house variety....like GQ is to Fry's and Best Buy (yep, I've seen some GQ laptops at Best Buy, in SJ over by santana blow... back in late 2003/early 2004)
But, for $122, I where ELSE it is useful for... (doesn't look like it'll draw blood)
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a ry+Razaq,+a+cool+electric+shaver.html
But, if anyone figures out this works for their pets, I imagine the gillette marketing team will cringe... struggling to shake off the image of their pricey gizmo being used by vets and frugal pet owners.... new, unwanted ad/slogan: "GilLETTe... the BEST a PET can GEHEHET..."
http://www.quintippio.co.uk/ looks more like a tongue or ass-scraper.... (sorry, just had to...)
But, for more serious ones, see these...
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/hitachi-ro
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/en/news-12496-Rot
For some reason I originally thought this was bout flat razors. But... seems if they want more blades or better head, they could make a micro-rotary system embedded in face masks. The masks could be custom latex molds. You go to sleep with it and then just rip it off.
Oh, wait, I guess they could just use Neet or Nair-- but made for men...
Oh, and I don't care... if there is NO patent as of this date, and later I come up with the money, I'll patent this just to open source it. Or, I'll make designs and release them if someone tries to preemptively patent it....
(....)
The way to deal with this rampant electrion fraud is to give people paddleboards with two colors: black & white (so at least the colorblind can participate).
Then, order a national voting day with pay. Everyone who will vote goes to a large open pieceof land and for each candidate, ballot, whatever, they flip up their colors. The ballots and measures and such have to be stated in PLAIN language, not asshole politician or lawyerspeak.
Then, foreign country planes or satellites acting as impartial observers shot pics of the paddles and the vote for each candidate or ballot measure or whatnot goes to color that is prearranged as the yay or nay color. Not electronics. No FUCKING around with the tallies.
Final remedy: SHOOT, hang or emascualte ANYone who tampers with the voting process or tries to disenfranchise voters. Time to reform the jerks screwing with the system.
(Slash image word: "blasted")
Aw (not as in awe-struck...) shucks (not as in stripping corn stalks) you're such cunning linguist....
If YOU'RE wearing them or if SHE'S wearing them.
Jeez... Aren't you really Tom Shane? On Slashdot, no less? Well, I for one WELCOME our shiny, lab-created sparklords...
"Gold-Pressed Latinum, anyone?"
These are the NUNS you WOO
Gimp your eyes.. one up and one down. Round out your mouth like Nancy Crater (the Salt Monster from Star Trek's "Man Trap" episode). Be sure to put a stringy mop on your yead. Add a couple of black dots or raisins to your face to see if actors with moles come up.
Or, adjust your hair with hair glue. See if Sid Vicious or Suicidal Tendencies or the like appear...
"But, this does scare me - I invisage a future wear the government knows where you are at any time, if not by picking up your face on the streets, to embedding some sort of chip."
Well then, if you MUST carry a cell phone (or any other "chip-embedded" device) not only should you remove the battery from the cell, but remember that it has a battery for your contact list and settings retention.
Ever seen your phone say, "Updating Contact List, Please Wait"?
Well, I don't fear their knowing my CONTACT LIST. After all, I do send and receive calls/messages. What bugs the shit out of me is that if I can't lose my phone, they wont' restore my list from the call records. Worse, when it says, "Updating Contact List", I think they're combing my list for notations that I DON'T call. I mean, names and numbers I enter for memory jogs or restaurants or other places. Now, I don't know if that's something YOU would worry about.
Or stuff your face a la The Godfather... "What have I done to deesurf dees?" But, in case the camera has gait analysis algorithms, then you have to sway and swagger like that black slimy zombie in "Return of the Living Dead".
Actually, you might want to watch Jet Li's/Simon Yam's "The Hit Man". It was made before 1998, and it showed (probably studio exaggerated, tho) gate analysis with facial matching software to track down an assassin. Looked pretty kewl for the time. (Beware: there are two versions: the HK and the English, which has several minutes of scenes deleted. I watched both. I think the some of the cuts might have been the biometric/gate-analysis stuff, and one scene where Jet Li was in a shop being dressed up to take his hit man role: Eric Tsang had him sorta gay-dressed... Maybe the studios in the west didn't like that?)
heheh... slash image word: "export"
Tokyo train station gets facial scan payment systemsa tion-gets-facial-scan-payment-systems/ [engadget.com]
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http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/27/tokyo-train-st
Your face could soon become just another 'bar code'
SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS AT STATIONS
http://www.infowars.com/articles/bb/biometrics_yo
Tokyo's Kasumigaseki Station
http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2006/04/26/tokyo
Well to the Komrade who extracts the SEEKRETS: KONGRATS, SOLDERER of Fortune...
But it STEENKS in here, Komrade...
Dasvidanya... Have some Tranya...
Don't ddrop de soap, Komrade...
Please, somebody mod this one up...
I mean, anal probing by by finger or by laptop? Having a laptop crammed up my ass would be quite a shocker, especially if the battery blows up. Give a new meaning to any Lithium-Hide-dried batteries...
Butt, I don't want Dell Hell in my ass, nor Gateway having a gateway into there. Nor the Sony Boys and their assploding battries...
FUCKING ASSHOLES!
/ Backup/Acronis-True-Image-Corporate-Workstation.ht ml
How long before Blackberries and other PDAs befall this same bs?
This ought to or might ramp up sales of Dell Latitudes. (I dunno about Inspirons and Precisions...). With the Latitude, it's easy to leave out two screws and slide out and swap the hard drives out (compared to many other l/ts that require removing the keyboards or opening up the chassis...). Just buy an extra caddy from Dell, configure a PERMANENTLY-dedicated disk for the border nazis and then when you're done with your main disk, slip in the just-for-the-border-nazis disk and when they need a boot up, boot it up. If you're brazen, have the boot up image say something nasty.... (Be SURE to isolate the other disk. If these rent-a-dummies DO confiscate it, hopefully they don't thing to rummage your pockets.) This just underscores that in computer THEFT (by burglar with a mission or agent with a warrant), it's NOT the hardware so much as the DATA and the DISK you care about.
But, that just opens up the REAL question: If this is a government action (vice a border agent action) is it the LAPTOP or the HARD DRIVE the government wants? If they're taking specific hardware, it's probably because they're PROFILING their marks, maybe looking for suspicious devices that they thing held or will hold a bomb. Maybe in reality, only devices with offending MAC addresses are targeted in some cases. Still, in this case you better back up your main disk and expect to lose it with the JFTBN disk. They'll just go into your purse or pocket and demand you surrender it, too. So, I suspect they are after data, not laptops. Or, the guards want the laptops and the agencies want the hard drives...
Now that this scenario is posited, they may as well just electronically confiscate a COPY of the disk using:
http://www.logicube.com/markets/forensics.asp
or
http://www.newfreedownloads.com/Windows-Utilities
and STOP STEALING PEOPLE'S HARDWARE and risking the WRATH of the populace.
I mean, in this day and age, short of a concern of EVERY hard disk and machine being digitally booby-trapped, there is no sane reason for taking people's hardware when for $1,500 on a Logicube, amortized across the 3,000 or 4,000 machines they might have warrants to sieze and search, they minimize the risk of SHEER outrage on the part of visitors, citizens and others. But of course they won't do this shit to diplomats, because they've got immunity. I've said before, and I'll say again: You can, with a warrant, CLONE my disk and copy my papers (If you bring a hand/wand scanner), but if you TAKE my shit, you better lock my ass up FOREVER and throw away the key cuz as long as I am mobile and able... err, umm, better not say that again.... sheesh...
How can I get diplomatic immunity from another country so as to not be searched and screwed with? How can we ALL do it? Oh, we can't.
I suspect next that in-flight nationality & customs declaration forms will have a section for passengers to, "under penalty of perjury, a $100,000 fine and imprisonment up to 15 years affirm/swear/attest that they did not encrypt, digitally booby-trap, or erase their disks nor switch them out with nor secretly give them to other passengers in an attempt to avoid a hard-drive road-block...."
Well, if this becomes a REAL problem and keeps up, I imagine concerned companies will forbid employees' taking company laptops overseas, will force them to rent or go with disposable laptops, and installing self-destructing hard drives which are used ONLY for VPN authentication/access/work and then disposal before leaving a foreign country. Individuals might follow suit.
More crap for the people to get worked up over (if it gets out of hand)...
Name a form of communication that has NOT been used for commerce.
Telepathy?
Tuvan Throat Singing?
Fire Dancing?
Cirle Jerking?
Channeling/Seances/Summoning of Spirits?
Blinking Morse Code by Eye?
Gertrude?
Tokyo Rose?
Roger that. Their problems could be felt as being orders of magnitude worse, considering they probably woefully underreported the number of lost boats, the numbers of ruptured coolant pipes, and their number of dead. Probably one reason they kept producing multitudes of classes of boats trying to rectify or escape plagued plant designs.
I was thinking more of like, "It's like a type of Global Habitrail... with bunnies in tubes in the tubes, delivering the messages..."
There have been "accidents"
u bs&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
a tional/russia/nuke_industry/co-operation/31750
http://www.google.com/search?q=accidents+in+USN+s
http://www.bellona.org/english_import_area/intern
Ever heard of Thresher and Scorpion. Sure, the reactors are either intact or leaking negligible rads, but there have been others. Such as problems with sodium-coolant reactors. Granted, I can't recall any deaths or hair-loss events over these, but... In general I see what you're trying to say...